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ORWELL INDEX

State

Oregon

Every county in Oregon has a dated source baseline here: an OpenStreetMap device snapshot and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance entries for its agencies. Counties marked researched have also had their local records read, and their pages carry Orwell Index findings. On the rest, what you see is two published datasets, dated and attributed, and the gap between them is part of what they show.

Twelve counties have no community-mapped devices at all. That is a fact about what volunteers have mapped, not a finding that those counties have no cameras.

One entry in the EFF Atlas for Oregon belongs to no county on this site. It records body-worn cameras at the Warm Springs Police Department, a tribal agency, filed under “Warm Springs County”, which is not one of Oregon’s 36 counties. A site organized by county cannot hold it, so 128 of the 129 Oregon rows in that dataset appear on a county page and one does not. Tribal jurisdictions are a gap in how this site is built, not an absence of surveillance.

Oregon’s own statutes are in the State law section below, read from the enrolled bills and the Oregon Revised Statutes. Senate Bill 1516, effective 31 March 2026, is the newest plate reader law on this site and in several places the strictest: a 30-day cap on retaining data not tied to a case, a published policy before deployment, and a statutory list of figures the vendor must hand the agency. ORS chapter 837 has governed public-body drones since 2013, with registration, annual reports and published data policies. California’s statutes are listed on its own page and do not apply here.

On record, across Oregon

Systems documented
13
Operating now
10
Devices mapped
1,253

1,253 devices mapped by the community, 0 verified by Orwell Index so far.

Researched counties

Source baseline counties

A dated OpenStreetMap device snapshot and the EFF Atlas entries for the county's agencies. Local records research has not been completed for these counties.

State law

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